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Manchester Area, United Kingdom

• Lead developer for the Brammer ERP (Kerridge Rev7)Team leader, updating the Data Warehouse estate from SQL Server 2005 to meet Cyber-Essentials accreditationSole developer for all heritage order management systems.
• Developed a single C#.NET Core “Application Portal” to modernise and replace several ASP.NET, C# and VB in-house applications.
• Designed and authored a PowerApps “Product maintenance” system, for the national distribution centre to effectively manage product range changes across the 100+ branch network.
• System architect, integrating the Blue Ridge stock forecasting service into the multiple Brammer ERPs.
• Analysed the warehouse stock and order communication APIs, resolving multiple critical failures, removing all need for manual input and stock resolution (previously 10+ issues per day).

Cornwall

• PLC Software developer, authoring a documented and reusable replacement for their aging PLC software in under 6 months.Sole System administrator for the business, modernising the company’s entire IT infrastructure in.
• Created a new, reusable, control system for leachate processing, allowing a new site to be implemented by configuration, rather than coding. This reduced commissioning time from over a month to approximately 4 hours.
• Replaced Windows server and domain, including Office365 and Sharepoint integration, adding new Contact management, Stock inventory and Document management systems.
• Created a new network infrastructure for the company, including firewall and phone system.

Home, Wythall, Oxford

• Enterprise architect in a project team of 50, tasked with designing and sequencing the migration of the 40+ Grafton brand trading companies into a single instance of Microsoft Dynamics AX.
• Enterprise architect for the proposed AX solution, reporting to the Group IT Director.
• Created the design proposal for system interfacing, through migration of data and operation for the three major GMGB business systems (Rev7, ACSL, Opal). The proposal reduced the business migration from 5 years to 3.
• Worked directly with business SMEs and 3rd party supplier to define the existing inter-system APIs and design standardised interfaces to replace them with a single ESB, using Microsoft BizTalk.

Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

• Senior developer for the Plumbase ERP (Kerridge Rev7). System architect across the 3 major ERPs (Rev7, Opal, ACSL) supporting over 400 branches and 10,000+ transactions daily.
• Supported and developed the Plumbase ERP for 2000 users across 220 branches.
• Architect for the “Trading Margin” project, using group-managed product information to control counter-applied discounts across the major GMGB brands. Sole developer for the Plumbase implementation, where the brand.
• Architect for an integrated Purchase Ledger invoice-matching system, working across the 3 major ERPs, reducing staffing overhead by 60%. Sole developer for the Plumbase implementation.
• Solution architect for bringing the Progress Group business into the Plumbase/Sparesbase brand, including integration with the Plumbase ERP.
• Architect for the “Payment groups” solution for the Credit Management team, enabling a single group-level payment to be split across multiple accounts. Reduced payment-allocation time for large customers from 3-5 days.

Crawley

• Senior developer in a team of 4, responsible for the design and development of various system updates for the Plumbase ERP (Kerridge Rev7).
• Revised the stock forecasting routines to service the Sparesbase central hub model, yielding a 90% reduction in stock levels without affecting stock-outages.
• Designed and developed an electronic invoicing system, creating formatted PDF invoices from the (text-based) Unix print files, replacing the previously outsourced paper invoicing solution.
• Designed an automated system mirror process, enabling a duplicate “CopyLive” system to operate for support and testing purposes.
• Implemented the PPI stock-checking business model, reducing the number of trading days taken by stock take by 50%.
• Created and trained the Plumbase QA team, responsible for testing any in-house development.

Hungerford, England, United Kingdom

• Senior programmer and Solution architect for the Kerridge Rev7 ERP. Senior programmer for several 1000+ user accounts, including Finelist, Euro Car Parts, WF Electrical, RGB, Bradfords, Jewson and Plumbase.
• Developed the Chip and PIN card payment system for Jewson.
• Integrated the Euro Car Parts card-payment system for both web and in-person payments.
• Designed and developed the Product surcharge service for Euro Car Parts
• Modernised the Stock Forecasting system, based on Professor Roy Johnstone’s work.

Shalford, England, United Kingdom

• Senior Developer for the AirUK, British Midland, Virgin, KLM and Braathens airline ticket reservation systems, heading up a team of 5.
• Full Stack development work.
• Complete website redesigns.
• Y2K resolutions.
• RS6000 server rebuild.

Portsmouth, England, United Kingdom

• Author of a network performance analysis suite for early in-flight entertainment systems, emulating the load of a flight’s-worth of user input. This analysis and optimisation directly resulted in the retraction of a.
• Created scripting tools in Visual C++ to emulate the actions of 400+ users on a typical flight.
• Network traffic analysis to identify bottlenecks and provide caching/optimisation guidance.
• This resulted in an over 300% improvement in system performance, as experienced by the user.

Beng, Electrical & Electronic Engineering

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